APUSH chapters 11-12
In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohen v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall's rulings limited the extent of
states' rights
The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 fixed the southernmost limits of Russian occupation of North America at
54° 40', the present southern tip of the Alaska panhandle.
One of the greatest problems that John Adams and the Federalists faced in the election of 1800 was
Adams's refusal to take the country to war against France.
Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) war hawks enter Congress, (B) declaration of war on Britain, (C) Embargo Act, and (D) Battle of Tippecanoe.
C, A, D, B
British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in
Florida
The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who, more than any other federal official, was able to carry out the Federalist ideas of Alexander Hamilton concerning strengthening the power of the federal government was
John Marshall
The United States' most successful diplomat in the Era of Good Feeling was
John Quincy Adams
John Marshall uttered his famous legal dictum that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" in
McCulloch v. Maryland
Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his political support from the
South and the West
In the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson won the deadlocked election because
a few Federalists, unwilling to elect Aaron Burr as president, decided to abstain from voting in the House of Representatives, throwing the presidential election to Jefferson.
One of the most important by-products of the War of 1812 was
a heightened spirit of nationalism
The British policy of impressment was functionally equivalent to
a kidnapping
All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise except that
a sectionalism was significantly reduced
John Marshall, as chief justice of the United States, helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government by
asserting the doctrine of judicial review of congressional legislation, giving the Supreme Court the power to determine constitutionality.
The Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans presented themselves as all of the following except
believers in a strong central government
Thomas Jefferson distrusted large standing armies because they
could be used to establish a dictatorship
As president, President Jefferson showed unexpected moderation and a conciliatory attitude toward his Federalist political opponent by
dismissing very few public servants for political reasons.
To deal with British and French violations of America's neutrality, President Jefferson
enacted an economic embargo that prohibited the exports of all goods from the United States, regardless of whether they were being shipped on American or foreign merchant ships.
In interpreting the Constitution, John Marshall
favored the doctrine of loose constitution
Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States for all of the following reasons except
he was afraid that the Spanish might seize Louisiana in a new war.
Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France because
he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.
The resolutions enacted by the delegates at the Hartford Convention
helped to cause the death of the Federalist party
The Chesapeake affair involved the flagrant use of
impressment
Despite Thomas Jefferson winning a majority of the popular vote and a majority of votes in the Electoral College during the election of 1800, a deadlock in the Electoral College led the election to being decided
in the House of Representatives
At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was
incapable of being effectively enforced by the United States armed forces
The British attack on Fort McHenry
inspired the writing of "The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key
When the Monroe Doctrine was issued in 1823
it might more accurately have been called the American Self-Defense Doctrine.
Thomas Jefferson and his political supporters opposed John Adams's last-minute appointment of new federal judges mainly because
it was an attempt by the Federalists, who had been defeated in the congressional and presidential elections of 1800, to maintain political influence in the federal government.
New England Federalists opposed the acquisition of Canada because
it was too agrarian and would give more votes to the Democratic-Republicans
When it came to the major Federalist economic programs, Thomas Jefferson as president
left practically all of them intact.
Thomas Jefferson's "Revolution of 1800" was remarkable in that it
marked the peaceful and orderly transfer of power on the basis of election results accepted by all parties
Thomas Jefferson's presidency was characterized by his
moderation in the administration of public policy
The principles of noncolonization and nonintervention in the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 were
most immediately diplomatic responses by the U.S. government of President Monroe to the apparent territorial designs of the Russians in Alaska and Oregon.
America's military campaigns against Canada in the War of 1812 were
poorly conceived strategically and successfully repelled by the British and Canadians.
Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining
possession of Florida from the Spanish.
In order to enhance the diplomatic leverage of the negotiations being conducted by American envoys James Monroe and Robert Livingston with Napoleonic France concerning obtaining American shipping access to the port of New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, President Jefferson
proposed to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain, against Napoleonic France.
The war hawks demanded war with Britain because they wanted to do all of the following except
retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.
The 1817 Rush-Bagot agreement
severely limited British and American naval armaments on the Great Lakes.
As a result of the Missouri Compromise
slavery was banned north of 36° 30' in the Louisiana Purchase territory
The Tariff of 1816 was the first in American history
that aimed to protect American industry
The Battle of New Orleans resulted in all of the following except
the British deciding to conclude a peace treaty with the Americans at Ghent, Belgium in late 1814.
Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at the Battle of
the Thames
By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came from
the West and South
Henry Clay embraced a program in 1824 called the American System which would create all of the following except
the constitutional right of individual states to nullify laws enacted by Congress that adversely affected their economic interests.
On becoming president, Thomas Jefferson and the Republicans in Congress immediately repealed
the excise tax on whiskey
As chief justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that
the political and economic systems were based on a strong central government.
Thomas Jefferson ceased his opposition to the expansion of the navy when the
the strategic usefulness of employing significant numbers of agile coastal naval crafts became apparent in the U.S. Navy's defeat of the Barbary Coast pirates during the Tripolitan War
The British impressed American sailors into the British navy because
they needed more military conscripts for their imperial military engagements around the world
Latin America's reaction to the Monroe Doctrine can be best described as
unconcerned or unimpressed
The Era of God Feelings
was a misnomer, because the period was marked by heated political disputes over the tariff, the bank, internal improvements, and the sale of public lands.